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How Mainstream Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News
Drew Curtis
ISBN: 9781592402915
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Gotham Books
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Fark.com founder Curtis exposes the stranger-than-fiction media patterns that prove just how little reporting is going on in the media world today. This witty wake-up call skewers all the news that was never fit for print in the first place.
Fark.com founder Curtis exposes the stranger-than-fiction media patterns that prove just how little reporting is going on in the media world today. This witty wake-up call skewers all the news that was never fit for print in the first place.
| ISBN | 1592402917 | | Pages | 288 | | ISBN13 | 9781592402915
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Gotham Books | | Weight (grammes) | 399 | | Imprint | Gotham Books | | Published in | New York | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 209 | | Publication date | 02 Aug 2007 | | Width (mm) | 140 | | Library of Congress | 2007008151 | | Spine width (mm) | 26 | | DEWEY | 302.23 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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a"It's Not News, It's Fark" does more to advance the journalistic art than all the millions spent by the Poynter Institute, the Shorenstein Center, the Nieman Foundation, the Project for Excellence in Journalism, the "Columbia Journalism Review" and the "American Journalism Review," the Committee of Concerned Journalists, the various Annenberg outposts, and the Freedom Forum, combined...Instead of urging journalists to raise their standards a the typical tack taken by the press-guardian-industrial complex a Curtis puts the onus on readers, insisting that they become better news consumers.a a"Slate.com"  Be the first to write a customer review
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